NEW SITE ----> Go to http://www.miketnelson.com < -----for all my latest info a this site below is from about 5-8 years ago. Michael T Nelson, MS CSCS, RKC is a PhD
Candidate in Kinesiology (Exercise Physiology) at the U of MN and Fitness Consultant in White Bear Lake, MN. Ramblings here about research, training, nutrition, exercise phys, Z Health, joint mobility, and whatever else I want

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Testimonial for Z Health and New Dragon Door Workshop: Z-Health

Today we have a testimonial from Dr. Jim Ryan and an announcement of a new Z Health workshop done with Dragon Door.

Z Health TestimonialMike Nelson really knows his stuff and he checked me for a visual override to my R-phase movements. He found a slight issue that showed a major improvement in my strength, stability and stamina! In my case, keeping my eyes (not my head) looking right improved my strength and stability dramatically.

After discovering the eyes right issue Mike evaluated the strength of a muscle (my Gluteus Medius - a critical pelvic stabilizer) via manual testing. He chose this muscle because they are a major player in normal walking, standing and because I mentioned that they tire out too easily while do my R-phase drills.

Checking their strength, the difference with eyes straight ahead vs. eyes right was night and day; straight ahead I could basically offer no resistance to Mike's pressure but with my eyes shifted to look Right I had to ask him, "Are you pressing as hard as before?" Of course he was, but it felt effortless to hold against his pressure. --note from Mike, many times eye movements get "wired" to muscle function. In Jim's case, his glute was much stronger by ONLY moving his eyes to the right! Hard to believe I know.

Such a small, simple but obviously important change is part of what the Z-Health system teaches it's practitioners to look for when evaluating your movement, performance and pain related issues...Now my balance is even better, my lower back feels stronger and I don't get as easily fatigued in those muscles while doing the hip and ankle drills.

Thanks, Mike!Dr. Jim Ryan, RKC

Be sure to check out his blog HERE and on the right side links under blogs. To get further info about Z Health for yourself, click HERE for all the details. If you are not in MN, click on the Z Health pic on the upper right to order the R Phase DVD and manual for yourself directly.

A new seminar!How to take full control of your body, live a pain-free life and physically excel in all you do…

Z-Health

The Essential Secrets ofElite Performance

WithDr. Eric Cobb

Sponsored by Dragon Door Publications

Friday, October 31—Sunday, November 2, 2008Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dr. Eric Cobb's Z-Health system gains its surprising power andeffectiveness from one fundamental insight:

When it comes to our well-being and our physical performance,the nervous system RULES!

However, this can be VERY BAD NEWS:

If the nervous system is left entirely to its own devices, itcan literally cripple you, even entirely destroy your ability tofunction without great pain and debilitating disease.

Attempting to be your best friend and save you from perceivedthreat, your nervous system can and OFTEN DOES turn into yourworst enemy, playing absolute havoc with your health andhappiness.

Most of us, unfortunately, have little clue and less training inhow to heed and effectively respond to the danger signals fromour own body, indicating that our own nervous system has got usby the throat and is slowly throttling the life out of us.

Great athletes have their careers cut short. The average athletedeclines into sub-par mediocrity. The rest of us struggleincreasingly with performance-crimping pains and aches andeventually become empty husks compared to our vibrant formerselves.

Many of us get trapped on an endless treadmill of expensivemassage, chiropractic, nouveau diets, gizmos and one "magicalpromise" treatment after another, looking in vain for a fix toour woes. Many of us even resort to pain-killing drugs and otherdestructive medications. (Which at best just numb us toward aneven speedier decline…)

Sadly, most of us simply continue to deteriorate, in strength,in flexibility, in performance, in our general health.

Through ignorance, we give away our power to the nervous systemand let it contribute to our quicker destruction…

But it absolutely DOESN'T have to be that way!

If we can understand—truly understand—how the nervous systemreally operates we can form a WIN-WIN partnership with our"ruler"—and radically shift the balance of power.

Instead of being the unwitting victims of a despot run rampant,we become the guiding pilots of a magnificently tuned andcalibrated system for supreme physical performance!

Enter Dr. Eric Cobb's Z-Health program—giving you everything youneed—not only to regain full control of your body—but also toramp up your physical performance to almost "superstar" levels.

Brilliant, immensely erudite, Dr. Cobb has explored everyimaginable avenue in his constant quest to push the humanperformance envelope. From esoteric Russian health systems, toFeldenkreis and somatics, to sports, to martial arts, to thefrontiers of Western neuroscience, Dr. Cobb has made it hislife-purpose to understand how we can live truly pain-free,high-performance lives.

And be it the professional athlete or the formerly bed-riddenhousewife—the results have spoken for themselves. Time and timeagain: careers resurrected or jump-started. Shattered livesrebuilt. Hope rekindled. Vibrant life reclaimed.

Having watched an increasing number of our best RKCs go throughthe Z-Health program and report amazing results… and havingmyself attended the six-day Z-Health R-Phase certification, Iwas confident enough in Z-Health to organize a 3-dayintroduction to Dr. Cobb's system, for a larger audience.

Right now, Z-Health is the inner success secret for an elitegroup of high performers and trainers—and a handful of lucky layfolk.

But I think it's a crying shame that such a dramaticallypowerful health and performance system continues to remainalmost "under wraps". The private reserve of a lucky few who arein the know.

So, at my personal invitation, Dr. Cobb has agreed to share keyinsights and drills from THREE levels of his Z-Healthcertification program.

Until now, you would have had to invest many, many thousands ofdollars to access this information—over a very extended periodof time.

Now, finally you can access much of this amazing knowledge for afraction of that expense in both time and money!

So, as a fortunate participant, here's what you will walk waywith after attending Dr. Cobb's Z-Health: The Essential Secretsof Elite Performance…

Become an equal partner with your nervous system when youdiscover how to dramatically enhance your pain-free health andperformance ACROSS THE BOARD.

Discover how to take advantage of your natural inbornreflexes—to make them HELP you, not hinder you. Hardly a soul onthe planet really understands how to do this. Now, YOU'LL know!

Get a "best of" approach to learning the practical applicationof Z-Health principles, drills, and techniques utilized by eliteathletes around the world.

Be spoon-fed the essential theory behind the scientificbreakthroughs—Dr. Cobb is brilliant at turning the mostsophisticated "neurophysiology of performance" into a simple setof easy-to-grasp and easy-to-apply formulas. He's done the heavylifting for you—now just gulp down and get going!

And speaking of spoon-fed, don't worry, there will be nothing onthe menu that resembles a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside anenigma":

This course is going to be ALL ABOUT PAYOFF in the field ofperformance. We're talking a severe bang for your buck in theworld of real physical movement—whether it be gardening in yourback yard pain-free, or competing on the highest level as aprofessional athlete.